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Ministry of Defence
Army Day Parade
Army Day Parade will be conducted at Cariappa Parade Ground on15 Jan 2021. In addition, a press brief for Republic Day Parade and Beating the Retreat will be conducted on 23 Jan 2021. Venue for the press brief shall be intimated later.
All interested media persons are requested to forward following details for necessary security clearances to armydayparade2021[at]gmail[dot]com by 05 Jan 2021:-
- Full Name
- PIB/ID Card No
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- Name of media Agency
- Photo of the applicant
- Applying for: ADP/Press Brief/Both
For any clarification, please callup 011-23019659.Mail received after 05 Jan 2021 may not be considered.
Ministry of Defence
INDIAN NAVY & INDIAN MARITIME UNIVERSITY MOVES AHEAD TOWARDS TECHNICAL COLLABORATION
A Memorandum of Understanding between Indian Navy and Indian Maritime University was signed on 02 Jun 23 at New Delhi for Technical Collaboration. The MoU sets forth the procedure towards collaboration in the fields of training, joint research & development, collaborative courses, resolution of field level issues by teams from Centre of Excellence , INS Shivaji, Lonavala and Indian Maritime University.
The MoU was signed by Vice Admiral Sandeep Naithani, Chief of Materiel and Dr. Malini V Shankar, IAS , Vice Chancellor Indian Maritime University.
Vice President's Secretariat
Vice President calls for the promotion and preservation of our rich linguistic and cultural heritage
New vocabulary of Indian languages must adapt to changing times- Vice President
Internet is a good medium for the spread of Telugu language; everyone should make use of it – Vice President
Vice President releases the 100th book of Vanguri Foundation of America
The Vice President, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu today emphasized the need to preserve our rich cultural and linguistic heritage and urged everyone to make efforts, individually and collectively, for this.
The Vice President made these remarks at the virtual release of the 100th book of the Vanguri Foundation of America. The book titled as ‘7va Prapancha Sahiti Sadassu Sabha Vishesha Sanchika’ is based on the 7th World Telugu Literary Summit organised by the Vanguri Foundation of America in collaboration with other Telugu cultural organisations in October last year.
Congratulating the editors, authors and publishers for dedicating the book to renowned singer Shri S P Balasubrahmanyam, the Vice President called for more such initiatives to promote our rich cultural heritage. He also lauded the Vanguri Foundation for organizing Telugu language conferences during the past 27 years.
Noting that emergence of internet and digital technologies provides us with new opportunities for preservation and development of our languages, the Vice President called for making effective use of these technologies. “The day our language is forgotten, our culture will also disappear,” he said, adding that our ancient literature should be brought closer to the youth. The Vice President urged the organizations working for Telugu language to take up the responsibility of making the rich literary wealth of Telugu available to everyone. Stressing the need to make the traditional vocabulary accessible to everyone, Shri Naidu said that it is necessary to use existing words effectively and create new Telugu words in line with changing trends.
The event was attended by representatives of the Telugu diaspora from all over the world, Telugu language enthusiasts and Telugu writers, including Sri Vanguri Chitten Raju, founder of the Vanguri Foundation of America, and Sri Vamsiramaraju, founder of the Vamsi Arts Theater.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
COVID-19 UPDATE
57.61 Cr. vaccine doses have been administered so far under Nationwide Vaccination Drive
34,457 new cases in the last 24 hours
Active cases account for 1.12% of total cases; lowest since March 2020
India's Active caseload stands at 3,61,340; lowest in 151 days
Recovery Rate increases to 97.54%; Highest since March 2020
36,347 recoveries in the last 24 hours increases Total Recoveries to 3,15,97,982
Weekly Positivity Rate  less than 3% for last 57 days
Daily positivity rate  less than 3% for last 26 days
50.45 cr Total Tests conducted so far
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Dr Harsh Vardhan chairs 5th Special Session of the WHO Executive Board
Strengthening emergency preparedness and risk management is key to addressing the health risks posed by emerging diseases and for progress towards sustainable development goals: Dr. Harsh Vardhan
“Therapeutics, diagnostics and vaccines for the whole world is the only way out of this pandemic”
Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare presided over the fifth special session of Bureau of the Executive Board as Chairman of the Executive Board of the World Health Organization , virtually. Observer participants and senior officials of WHO Headquarters were also present.
The agenda of the meet included focus on the measures necessary to ensure the full and effective implementation of the terms of resolution WHA 73.1 on COVID-19 response.
The resolution WHA 73.1 titled “COVID-19 response” was co-sponsored by more than 130 countries and calls for the intensification of efforts to control the pandemic and for equitable access to and fair distribution of all essential health technologies and products to combat the virus.
At the outset, Dr Harsh Vardhan welcomed the participants,and expressed his deepest condolences for those who have sacrificed their lives to the pandemic and those who are continuing to fight relentlessly and selflessly.
Recollecting the global crisis the pandemic has unleashed, he said: “Today there are compelling circumstances that have forced us all to meet virtually.Governments, industry and philanthropy must pool resources to pay for the risk, the research, manufacturing and distribution, but with the condition that the rewards should be available to everyone, regardless of where they have been developed.
He further added, “Committing to disaster risk reduction and management would require early and transparent identification and communication of risks, maintaining the momentum in investing in people and resilient health systems, strengthened multi-sector collaboration, stress on the swifter generation of evidence, accelerated research & development efforts and rational evidence-based implementation of plans.”
In this regard, Dr Harsh Vardhan urged WHO members to work with the global community of partners for the efficient, effective and responsive discharge of public health obligations.“All these challenges, such as the present pandemic, demand a shared response because these arethe shared threats requiring shared responsibility to act. The shared responsibility is also the core philosophy of our alliance of member nations that comprise WHO.”
Dr Vardhan stressed on the“need to initiate, at the earliest appropriate moment, and in consultation with the Member States, a stepwise process of an impartial, independent, and comprehensive evaluation, including using existing mechanisms, as appropriate, to review experience gained and lessons learned from the WHO-coordinated international health response to COVID-19.”
Special Service and Features
NSO to conduct Regional Training Camp
Field Operations Division, National Statistical Office, Thiruvananthapuram under Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation is organizing a Regional Training Camp to train the field officials. The training is for Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises Survey from 26-28 September 2022 at Kerala Arts and Craft Village, Vellar, Thiruvananthapuram. The survey will begin on 1 October 2022 and end on 30 September 2023.The inaugural session of Regional Training Camp will be held on 26th September 2022 at 10 00 AM. Officers and staff of Thiruvananthpuram, Kollam, Kochi offices of NSO will attend the training camp.
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Ministry of Railways
Oxygen Express Operations expand to Haryana & Telangana after Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi
Cumulative liquid medical oxygen  carried by Indian railways to reach almost 640 MT in next 24 hrs
Uttar Pradesh receives its 5th Oxygen express carrying more than 76 MT LMO, 6th on its way
Oxygen Express Operations of Indian Railways continue to bring relief to the States
Oxygen Express Operations of Indian Railways continued to bring relief to the States as its operations expanded to the States of Haryana & Telangana after Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi.
Continuing the momentum, there are three more trains on the run either carrying Liquid Oxygen or on the way to the loading plants. It is expected that cumulative liquid medical oxygen  carried by Indian railways will reach almost 640 MT in next 24 hrs.
Uttar Pradesh received its Oxygen express no. 5 carrying 76.29 MT of liquid medical oxygen  today in 5 tankers. 1 Tanker was offloaded in Varanasi while remaining 4 tankers are offloaded in Lucknow. Train no. 6 is already on its way to Lucknow and is expected to arrive tomorrow i.e. 30 Apr 2021 carrying 33.18 MT LMO in 4 tankers. Another empty rake is expected to leave Lucknow today for bringing next set of oxygen tankers.
Haryana will receive its first Oxygen express as a train with two tankers is expected to leave Angul  today. Empty rake from Faridabad to Rourkela is also on its way and is expected to reach tonight. Continuous stream of Oxygen trains to Haryana will ensure oxygen replenishment to the Covid-19 patients in the state.
Telangana Govt. has also requested Indian Railways for Oxygen express. An empty rake is on its way from Secunderabad to Angul with 5 empty tankers and is expected to reach Angul tomorrow.
Railways is in full preparedness for providing oxygen transportation services to all the states in need. In the ongoing operation, States provide tankers to the Railways. Railways then proceeds in fastest feasible mode to bring the Oxygen supplies from the locations and delivers it the requisitioning State. The deployment and use of this Oxygen is done by the State Government.
Liquid Oxygen being a cryogenic cargo has many limitations like maximum speed at which it can be carried, maximum acceleration & deceleration and loading restrictions like availability of liquid oxygen tankers and loading ramps etc. Route mapping also takes care of the maximum clearances available along the route .
Cabinet
Cabinet approves establishment of National Institute of Mental Health Rehabilitation in Sehore District instead of Bhopal
The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved,in partial modification of the earlier decision taken on 16.05.2018, the establishment of National Institute of Mental Health Rehabilitation in Sehore District  instead of Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh.
Benefits:
NIMHR will be the first of its kind in the country in the area of mental health rehabilitation. It will serve as an institution of excellence for capacity building in human resource and research in the area of mental health rehabilitation, and also recommending body suggesting models/protocols for effective rehabilitation of persons with mental illness.
Ministry of Power
NTPC announces recruitment of an all-Female Engineers batch on Women’s Equality Day
On Women’s Equality Day, NTPC Ltd has recruited its first all-Female Engineering Executive Trainees  batch to reaffirm its stand on diversity and inclusion.
NTPC received an overwhelming response of the recruitment advertisement, which was published in April, 2021. The engineering graduates were selected based on the performance in GATE 2021 in the Electrical, Mechanical, Electronics and Instrumentation disciplines.
Company has envisioned an all-female Operation Control Room at NTPC in the near future, towards a brighter future ahead for females in the organisation.
Out of 50 offers sent by NTPC, 30 Female Executive Trainees  have already joined the company between 31st July and 6th August 2021.
This special all-female EET batch is currently undergoing a customised induction-cum-training programme at NTPC’s state of the art Regional Learning Institutes  located at NTPC Sipat, NTPC Vindhyachal and NTPC Simhadri in the Mechanical, Electrical and Control & Instrumentation  disciplines.
NTPC is establishing the regular interaction of new recruiters with the senior management and other employees to ensure that the youngsters are assimilated into the spirit & culture of the organization.
NTPC has been working on improving its gender ratio wherever possible. It has always believed in providing equal opportunity to all the sections of society and has consciously promoted diversity through its hiring practices.
As a responsible corporate citizen, NTPC has institutionalized policies like Human Rights and Right to Equal Opportunity. NTPC promotes equality and diversity amongst its employees. To support the women workforce, company adheres to policies like Child Care Leave with Pay, Maternity Leave, Sabbatical leave and NTPC Special Child Care Leave on Adoption of a Child/Delivering Child through Surrogacy. Statutory requirements and policy guidelines are adhered to without any discrimination.
Ministry of Civil Aviation
Minister of Civil Aviation, Shri Jyotiraditya Scindia inaugurates direct flight between Mumbai and San Francisco
The flight will be operated three days a week
Union Minister of Civil Aviation and Steel, Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia inaugurated a direct flight between Mumbai and San Francisco today.
Air India will operate the non-stop flight on this route effective from 15th December 2022 as per the following schedule:
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In his address, Minister of Civil Aviation, Shri Jyotiraditya Scindia said that under the visionary leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, the Civil Aviation Sector in India is on the cusp of a transformation. It only had 74 airports in the first 68 years of India's independence which has now increased 145 including heliports and water aerodromes. There has been democratisation of the Civil Aviation in the country. From a very low base of close to 63 million travellers in 2013- 14, we have reached 144 million travellers in the year 2019- 20. Similar growth has been experienced from the international side as well.
Minister urged Indian carriers to look at increasing international traffic and to get more wide-bodied aircraft to capture the long-haul route market which is currently dominated by international carriers.
Shri Scindia added that the government is in the discussion with major airlines to establish India’s first international hub in Delhi which will have multiplier effect on all sectors of the economy.
The occasion was graced by Shri Eknath Sambhaji Shinde, Chief Minister of Maharashtra. Shri. Rajiv Bansal, Secretary MoCA, Shri. Campbell Wilson, CEO-Air India, and other senior officials from AAI and MoCA were also present.
Ministry of Defence
Atal Tunnel officially recognised as ‘Longest Highway Tunnel above 10,000 feet’ by World Book of Records
Atal Tunnel has officially been certified by World Book of Records, as the ‘World’s Longest Highway Tunnel above 10,000 Feet’, during a landmark ceremony on 09 February 2022, in New Delhi. Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhry, Director General of Border Roads Organisation  received the award for the stupendous achievement of the Border Roads Organisation  in constructing this engineering marvel connecting Manali to the Lahaul - Spiti Valley. World Book of Records UK, is an organisation that catalogues and verifies extraordinary records across the world with authentic certification.
The Nation’s pride, the visionary project of Atal Tunnel was dedicated to the Nation by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on October 03, 2020. The 9.02 km long, strategically significant, Atal Tunnel, that runs under the ‘Rohtang Pass’ was constructed on the Manali - Leh Highway under the challenging conditions of freezing temperatures in extremely difficult terrain. Prior to the construction of the tunnel, the highway remained closed during winter season for six months, isolating Lahaul & Spiti from the mainland. Construction of this tunnel has reduced the distance on Manali - Sarchu road by 46 km and travel time by four to five hours, providing all-weather connectivity on the Manali - Leh axis.
The construction of this tunnel, nestled in Pir Panjal Ranges of the Himalayas, has been as much a test of technical & engineering skills, as of human endurance and machine efficacy. It has been constructed in extremely harsh and challenging terrain, wherein the temperatures in winters dipped to bone-chilling -25 degrees and often temperature inside the tunnel soared to nearly 45 degrees. Fragile geology and challenges like seepage of Seri Nala, leading to the flooding of the Atal Tunnel, coupled with high overburden & excessive snowfall were some of the principal construction challenges successfully surmounted by the Karmyogis of BRO.
The BRO, true to its motto ‘Connecting Places Connecting People’ has provided an engineering marvel in Atal Tunnel, Rohtang. The tunnel, besides offering the Armed Forces a strategic advantage by providing an alternate link to the critical Ladakh Sector, has also been a boon for the residents of Lahaul & Spiti District in Himachal Pradesh. The region has seen an unprecedented increase in the arrival of tourists, and in a little more than a year, the valley and the state have witnessed growth in the socio-economic domains. The Atal Tunnel is destined to play a defining role in the future development of the region.
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Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs 
Cabinet approves reduction of Government of India equity shareholding in select CPSEs below 51% by retaining management control
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has accorded 'in-principle' approval for enabling reductionof Government of India paid-up share capital below 51% in select CPSEs while retaining the management control on case to case basis,taking into account the Government shareholding, and the shareholding of Government-controlled institution.
Benefits:
This is intended to widen the bandwidth of disinvestment window in select CPSEs. This will also help in pursuing the objectives of disinvestment i.e. spreading the wealth of the nation among a greater number of people, promoting efficient management of Government investment in CPSEs and ensuring greater transparency and increasing contribution of the CPSEs towards higher economic growth of the nation.
It would also increase the free float available in the market which may have positive impact on Foreign Portfolio Investments in Indian capital markets and in creation of wider investment space for retail and institutional investors and may increase in the market premium of CPSEs due to likely positive investors perception.
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Clarification over India's Carbon Emissions
Certain media reports have misquoted a Ministry official about falling of India’s carbon emissions for 2020. It is clarified that the statement was in the context of predicted fall in global Carbon Dioxide emission, not country’s emission, which was reported a couple of months ago based on the Global Energy Review 2020 report of International Energy Agency.
Ministry of Defence
Government is committed to Quality Assurance in Military Aviation: Defence Secretary
Workshop on QA Reforms in Military Aviation for Promoting Indigenous R&D and Manufacturing
Defence Secretary Shri Giridhar Aramane said that Government was committed to ensure Quality Assurance  in military aviation and taking appropriate measures to remove obstacles in indigenization of Defence manufacturing industry. He was delivering keynote address at Workshop on “QA Reforms in Military Aviation for Promoting Indigenous R&D and Manufacturing”, held on July 3, 2023 in New Delhi. The Defence Secretary was chief guest at the function organized by Directorate General of Aeronautical Quality Assurance , MoD and Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers .
Defence Secretary further said that the country is progressing in line with PM’s vision of Aatmnirbharata in defence. It is a challenge but systems are being put in place and measures are being taken to achieve it, he said. He urged the private sector to invest more in Aeronautical Quality assurance research and testing.
The aviation sector is a complex domain with advanced technology and critical considerations for fight safety and mission success. To address these risks, the global aviation industries operates under the airworthiness framework governed by state or government agencies. In India, the Technical Airworthiness Authority  consisting of DGAQA, which ensures airworthiness through quality assurance, and Centre for Military Airworthiness and Certification  which ensures airworthiness of designs, provides airworthiness certification and quality assurance for all Indian aviation industries.
As part of Government of India's Make in India and Aatmnirbhar Bharat programs, DGAQA has been driving various initiatives to rope-in maximum number of Aerospace product manufactures to be prospective suppliers for Indian Defence requirements and be the contributors for national defence preparedness.
The primary objective of the workshop was to highlight the handholding initiatives undertaken by DGAQA, which facilitates the entry of Indian manufacturers into the defence aerospace manufacturing business. Additionally, the workshop aimed to identify any further requirements of support and assistance in order to enhance the potential for indigenous manufacturing. The workshop was attended by senior officials of MoD, Indian Air Force, Army aviation, Naval Aviation, Indian Coast Guard, DRDO Labs, CEMILAC; and captains of Indian aviation industries.